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- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America
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by Gunnar Trumbull
- June 1985
- Case
Henkel Group: Umbrella Branding and Globalization Decisions
By: Robert J. Dolan
Henkel's adhesive group is considering a major change in the international selling of its two major adhesives products for households. The proposed strategy is based on two concepts: umbrella branding and global standardization.
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Keywords:
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Globalization;
Expansion;
Consumer Products Industry
Dolan, Robert J. "Henkel Group: Umbrella Branding and Globalization Decisions." Harvard Business School Case 585-185, June 1985.
- September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
- Case
Zalora Philippines: From Growth to Profitability
By: Donald Ngwe and Thales Teixeira
In May 2015 Paulo Campos, co-founder and CEO of Zalora Philippines, found himself at a crucial turning point in his young company’s development. In just three years, Zalora had come from entering the Philippine fashion retail industry as an unknown quantity to becoming...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Fashion Industry;
Retail Industry;
Sweden;
Southeast Asia;
Philippines
Ngwe, Donald, and Thales Teixeira. "Zalora Philippines: From Growth to Profitability." Harvard Business School Case 517-009, September 2016. (Revised September 2017.)
- January 2004 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Raymond James Financial
Raymond James Financial (RJF) currently sells financial services through two channels. It is considering adding a third in the "middle" of the other two. The current strategy has one channel with employees and another with independent contractors. These attract very...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Salesforce Management;
Marketing;
Distribution Channels;
Human Resources;
Financial Services Industry;
Service Industry
Godes, David B. "Raymond James Financial." Harvard Business School Case 504-027, January 2004. (Revised February 2006.)
- October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Sprout Solutions
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau
Husband-and-wife co-founders Patrick and Alexandria Gentry had built Sprout Solutions to be one of the biggest Software-as-a-Service human resources management platforms in the Philippines, guided by the mission to "impact the life of every Filipino by improving...
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- December 1981 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
Ocean Drilling, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Piper
Management must choose between two mutually exclusive bids to build two drilling rigs. Both bids involve attractive export credit financing denominated in foreign currencies.
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Piper, Thomas R. "Ocean Drilling, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 282-050, December 1981. (Revised July 1991.)
- 10 Dec 2013
- News
Wall Street feeds the ravenous debt beast again
- November 2003
- Article
The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns
By: Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler
The maturity of new debt issues predicts excess bond returns. When the share of long-term debt issues in total debt issues is high, future excess bond returns are low. This predictive power comes in two parts. First, inflation, the real short-term rate, and the term...
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Keywords:
Borrowing and Debt;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
Financial Markets;
Forecasting and Prediction
Baker, Malcolm, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns." Journal of Financial Economics 70, no. 2 (November 2003): 261–291.
- April 2012
- Case
Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)
By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its...
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Keywords:
Natural Disasters;
Crisis Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Production;
Strategy;
Semiconductor Industry;
Auto Industry;
Japan
Shih, Willy, and Margaret Pierson. "Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-071, April 2012.
- May 1997 (Revised March 1998)
- Case
Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change
By: Joseph L. Bower
Three cases deal with the introduction of a new product to Teradyne's line of semiconductor test equipment. This case provides historic and administrative background for the other two cases. Teradyne: The Aurora Project deals with the problems facing the head of a...
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Business Startups;
Change Management;
Business or Company Management;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product;
Problems and Challenges;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology
Bower, Joseph L. "Teradyne: Managing Strategic Change." Harvard Business School Case 397-113, May 1997. (Revised March 1998.)
- June 1980 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Parker House (B)
The management of Boston's historic Parker House, owned by Dunfey Hotels, has received a request from a tour wholesaler to book a large number of rooms at the hotel during summer and fall 1980. This booking is tied to bookings at two other Dunfey hotels that need this...
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Lovelock, Christopher H. "Parker House (B)." Harvard Business School Case 580-152, June 1980. (Revised December 1992.)
- February 2015
- Article
Location Choices under Strategic Interactions
By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms...
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Keywords:
Location Strategies;
Multinational Strategy;
Oligopolistic Competition;
Firm Heterogeneity;
Geographic Location;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Balance and Stability;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Game Theory
Alcacer, Juan, Cristian Dezso, and Minyuan Zhao. "Location Choices under Strategic Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 36, no. 2 (February 2015): 197–215.
- April 2006
- Case
Big Bazaar
By: Ananth Raman and Laura Winig
Describes a high-growth Indian retailer, Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd., and two of the company's formats--Big Bazaar and Food Bazaar. Challenges students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key...
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Business Units;
Transformation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Market Entry and Exit;
Supply Chain Management;
Competition;
Corporate Strategy;
Retail Industry;
India
Raman, Ananth, and Laura Winig. "Big Bazaar." Harvard Business School Case 606-099, April 2006.
- Web
Annual Cost of Attendance - MBA
fellowships, outside scholarships, and student loans, up to the Cost of Attendance for the academic year. A Shared Investment in Your Future $92,000 average need-based scholarship awarded over two years $51M total funds awarded in FY23...
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- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
would return to consulting afterward. But Izquierdo, who spent six months at an Italian culinary institute after high school, had long wanted to open her own eatery as a side venture. In the meantime, Azuero had been mulling...
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- October 1990
- Article
Troubled Debt Restructurings: An Empirical Analysis of Private Reorganization of Firms in Default
By: S. C. Gilson, J. Kose and L. H. P. Kang
This study investigates the incentives of financially distressed firms to restructure their debt privately rather than through formal bankruptcy. In a sample of 169 financially distressed companies, about half successfully restructure their debt outside of Chapter 11....
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Gilson, S. C., J. Kose, and L. H. P. Kang. "Troubled Debt Restructurings: An Empirical Analysis of Private Reorganization of Firms in Default." Journal of Financial Economics 27, no. 2 (October 1990): 315–353.
- December 2013
- Article
How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang
The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal question using a natural experiment...
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Keywords:
Staggered Board;
Takeover Defense;
Antitakeover Provision;
Proxy Fight;
Tobin's;
Firm Value;
Agency Cost;
Delaware;
Chancery Court;
Airgas;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance
Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a Natural Experiment." Journal of Financial Economics 110, no. 3 (December 2013): 627–641.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Governing Misvalued Firms
By: Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for managerial misbehavior, while monitoring and corporate governance curb misbehavior. We combine these two insights from the literatures on misvaluation and governance to ask, when does governance matter?...
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Kadyrzhanova, Dalida, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Governing Misvalued Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-037, October 2012. (Revised January 2014. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19799, January 2014)
- August 1997 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Harassment at Work?
By: Lynn S. Paine and Dale Coxe
Presents three scenarios involving behavior that could arguably be called sexual harassment. The first scenario is set in a medical supply company in an unnamed emerging market region. The second is set in a New York-based securities firm. The third is set in a U.S....
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Keywords:
Working Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Problems and Challenges;
Ethics;
Moral Sensibility;
Groups and Teams;
Crime and Corruption;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Labor and Management Relations;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
New York (city, NY);
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Dale Coxe. "Harassment at Work?" Harvard Business School Case 398-001, August 1997. (Revised December 1997.)